Anything Beyond The Universe? New Theory Changes Our Destiny

[Linnea]

Posted at HuffPo:

We think our destiny is to journey to Mars and beyond. Yet as we build our spacecraft, we're about to be broadsided - from a different direction - by the most explosive event in history.

Sometime in the future science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time.

Immanuel Kant declared in 1781 that space and time were real, but only indeed as properties of the mind. These algorithms are not only the key to consciousness, but why space and time − indeed the properties of matter itself - are relative to the observer. But a new theory called biocentrism suggests that space and time may not be the only tools that can be used to construct reality. At present, our destiny is to live and die in the everyday world of up and down. But what if, for example, we changed the algorithms so that instead of time being linear, it was 3-dimensional like space? Consciousness would move through the multiverse.

We'd be able to walk through time just like we walk through space. And after creeping along for 4 billion years, life would finally figure out how to escape from its corporeal cage. Our destiny would lie in realities that exist outside of the known physical universe.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-la ... 55260.html

[rumike]

Very cool, Linnea. Interestingly, Carl Sagan actually said something similar in a book, although I can't remember which one. I remember thinking that was pretty wild for him.

But I like it.

[Joolz]

Agreed -- very cool article, Linnea! Thanks for posting this.

[Linnea]

Robert Lanza will be on with Art, Friday March 26th, 2010.

This should be a great interview!